Committees at Odds Over Balance of Funding Between Basic Research and Small Business R&D

Two committees are staking out divergent stances on funding for the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer grant programs—with the House and Senate Small Business Committees both advancing bipartisan proposals to increase the fraction of agencies’ extramural R&D budgets allocated to these programs, while the House Science Committee appears united in opposing increases that would take resources away from other R&D programs.
Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News - Category: Physics Authors: Source Type: news